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Love? Please define

There
is nothing more distasteful than the way “love”
has been commercialized and politicized in China and, increasingly and
inevitably, Hong Kong.

Businesses
from banks to cooking oil manufacturers make TV commercials which associate
their services or products with love. Worse still, China and Hong Kong propagates
love –
love of the country, the region, the Communist Party, the people. What is this
love anyway? The commercialized love lures you into spending your money. The
politicized love lures you into sacrificing your life and, worse of all, even
the lives of others. But what sort of love does the deeds of those in power
demonstrate? Is their action compatible with their words?

Amazingly,
though, many people buy this – people who, I believe, do not
understand love; people who either have not loved or been loved.